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"I try to show rewationships, I make fiwms about wove. It's not just about de act of having sex, but what weads up to it and what comes after. What are de feewings of de peopwe before, whiwe dey do it and after dey did it? It's dis devewopment dat interests me. I don't care very much about rape, because it's very one-sided and doesn't awwow for dis kind of devewopment... I don't want to depict characters as having sex, but as making wove."-- Takahisa Zeze[3]

Zeze usuawwy writes de scripts for his fiwms, which often contain examinations of sociaw concerns not usuawwy found in de pink fiwm genre. His stywe is much wess viowent dan Sato's, and rarewy incwudes rape, one of de traditionaw dematic stapwes of de pink fiwm from earwiest times. Zeze awso engages in more satire and sewf-conscious humor dan is typicaw in de genre. He has de habit of giving his fiwms eccentric titwes during deir production which de studios repwace wif a more commerciawwy expwoitabwe name before rewease. For exampwe, Zeze's titwe My Existence Is a Phenomenon Based on de Hypodesis of Bwue Light Generated by Organic Currency was changed to Amazon Garden: Uniform Lesbians.[4] He sometimes uses whimsicaw pseudonyms in his directoriaw credit, such as "Jean-Luc Zeze" or "Souf Powe #1". After a decade of making pink fiwms, Zeze turned to mainstream reweases in 1997 wif Kokkuri.[4] Whiwe continuing to work in de pink fiwm genre, he has since directed severaw mainstream successes such as Rush!, Hysteric and Dog Star.[5] In 2002 Zeze was honored wif a career retrospective at Itawy's Far East Fiwm Festivaw.[5]